Author Salman Rushdie has taken the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.

The Satanic Verses author was left blind in one eye after a 24-year-old man allegedly stormed the stage and attacked him at a literary festival in New York

Henry Reese is co-founder of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, part of a network providing refuge for persecuted writers that Sir Salman inspired.

In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York and began attacking him

Hadi Matar is charged with attempted murder in the attack, which took place in 2022 as Mr. Rushdie was about to speak at an arts conference in western New York.

On the witness stand, Salman Rushdie described the frenzied moments when a masked man rushed at him on a stage and repeatedly slashed him with a knife.

Salman Rushdie appeared in court on Tuesday to testify in the trial of the man who is accused of trying to murder him on stage at a talk in western New York in 2022. “It occurred to me that I was dying.